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beds of Wyoming, apparently a bird-catcher. New or little-known elephants 

 and mastodons of North America. 



A. Agassiz; On elevated Oceanic Islands in the Pacific. 



2. American Association for the Advanceme7it of Science. — 

 The next meeting will be held in Washington, Dec. 29 to Jan. 3, 

 inclusive. This is the first time the Association has met in the 

 winter. 



3. Smithsonian Institution, Animal Heport for 1901 ; by S. 

 P. L.ANGLEY, Secretary. Pp. lvii + '739, 71 pis.— The last report 

 of the Smithsonian Institulion shows that increased appropria- 

 tions means increased volume of important work. Fifty articles 

 by well known specialists tell of the latest progress in the princi- 

 pal branches of knowledge. 



4. TInited States National Museum. Bull. 51, 168 pp. List of 

 Publications 1875-1900, by Randolph I. Geaee. — The National 

 Museum has issued a complete list of its publications, arranged 

 both as a chronological record and as a subject and title index. 



5. British Museum — Catalogue of the Collection of Birds* 

 Eggs ; by Eugene W. Gates. Vol. ii, 400 pp., 15 colored plates. 

 — Descriptions are given of 15,000 specimens of eggs belonging 

 to the Carinatce. Ten orders and 726 species are included in 

 the list. 



6. United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ; G. H. Tittman, 

 Superintendent : 



Annual Report 1901. 423 pp., 46 illustrations, 4 maps in 

 pocket. — The superintendent of the Coast Survey reports the 

 inauguration of the survey of the Philippine coast line and the 

 establishment of a snboffice for the publication of charts and 

 notices to mariners. Parlies were also at work in Porto Rico, 

 the Hawaiian Islands and Alaska. Perhaps the most import- 

 ant field work now in hand is the measurement of the 98th 

 meridian. Mr. A. L. Baldwin reports on the Measurement of 

 Nine Bases along the 98th Meridian (pp. 241-302) ; and Mr. J. 

 F. Hayfoed, inspector of geodetic work, describes the present 

 state of the triangulation along this meridian in Kansas and 

 Nebraska. The measured arc will cover 23° of latitude within 

 the United States; the Mexican government is expected to extend 

 it 9° southward, and it is possible to extend it far northward. 



The Eastern Gblique Arc of the United States and 

 GscuLATiNG Spheroid ; by Chas. A. Schott. Special Publication 

 No. 7, 394 pp., 38 illustrations, 2 maps in pocket. — The second long 

 arc measured by the Coast Survey extends from Calais, Maine, to 

 New Grleans, La. The line is 2612-3 kilometers in length, 

 covering 23°, 30' 57'^, and is unique in that it is the first one which 

 utilizes on a grand scale a measurement oblique to the meridian. 

 The work w^as begun in 1833 and the field work finished in 1898. 

 The Eastern Gblique Arc intersects the Transcontinental Arc of 

 the 39th parallel in Maryland and Virginia. With the measure- 

 ments along the 98th meridian well under way and two long arcs 

 already completed, the Coast Surve}^ may well feel proud of its 

 contributions to geodesy. 



